温州市直十校联盟第一次模拟考试卷(英语)(20104)

温州市直十校联盟第一次模拟考试卷（英语）（2010.4）一、单项填空（10分）1. -- Do you enjoy your stay on Jiangxin Island? -- Yes. I’ve had _____ wonderful time.A. /B. aC. theD. an2. The teacher said we needed to choose three _____ for the school concert.A. farmersB. doctorsC. driversD. singers3. – Can you give me a hand with this table? -- Sure. ____ are you going to put it?A. WhyB. HowC. WhereD. When4. – Could you tell me ____________? -- Glad to help.A. if I have been to the great wallB. where did he studyC. how I can get to the stationD. what’s your name5. – What’s his problem? -- He is worried because he has no money to _____ education.A. pay forB. spendC. takeD. buy6. The exhibition is a great success, ____ it’s not very big.A. soB. althoughC. butD. because7. Mike wasn’t at home yesterday. He _____ to give us a lecture.A. is invitingB. is invitedC. was invitedD. was inviting8. The singers are singing _____ money for the poor Children.A. for raisingB. to raiseC. raisingD. raise to9. – Look at my new bike. It’s the best thing I’ve ever received.-- __________.-- Thank you.A. I don’t like it.B. It looks greatC. I knowD. You’re welcome.10. – What does the sign mean?-- It means ________.A. we can drink waterB. we can use lots of waterC. we must save waterD. we have enough water.二、完形填空（15分）My grandmother used to say to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was 11 . I've discovered that my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only 12 a few "best" friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different 13 . Let me tell you about a few of them.One type of friends is the type that I call the “soccer mom friend”. My neighbor Betty is a good 14 . We both have kids who play soccer, and someone has to take them to their pracices and pick them up. Betty and I and two 15 mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have coffee and talk ___16___ what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we see each other. I 17 staying with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.Another type is the “18 friend”. This is the person __19_ you share interest or a hobby with. Doug and Charles Fisher, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. They all 20 to a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on hikes to watch different kinds of 21 .There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Doug and Charles, of course. We just share an interest in birds.22 there’s the “other half of the couple(夫妇)” type of friends. George is married to Carmen, a friend that I've known 23 college. When Carmen married George. I knew that I would have to be 24 friend if I wanted to continue to be Carmen's. George and I don't share that many interests, but we do have a 25 relationship.AThis blue curly hair looks like the waves of the sea. Its smile is a sign of the healthy spirit of China. Those thumbs - up will welcome millions to Shanghai from around the world.It is Haibao, the mascot of the 2010 Shanghai World Exposition World Exposition. “ I'ts very cute,” said Gu Weiyi, a school kid. “ I want a big toy like the mascot.”Haibao looks like the Chinese word ren, which means people or a person. The name comes from the Chinese phrases “Sihai Zhi Bao” --- the treasure of the four seas. Haibao aslo means the treasure of Shanghai, which lies beside the sea.Haibao was made by two artists, one from the mainland ant the other from Taiwan. The design is about people living together in the city. The designers want it to fit in with the theme of the Shanghai Exposition: Better City, Better Life.26. Which is the mascot of the 2010 Shanghai World Exposition?A. B. C. D.27. How many artists designed the mascot?A. 2B. 3C. 5D. 828. What is the theme of the Shanghai Exposition?A. One world, one dream.B. Better city, better life.C. One ever burning flameD. The celebration of the centuryBTyphoons in the northern part of the world have girl s’ name. sometimes they have very beautiful names. Rose is a pretty name but there was nothing pretty about Typhoon Rose. It was the worst typhoon to hit Hong Kong in ten years.It began to rain in the morning of Monday, August 16th, 1971. At ten o’clock in the morning, Typhoon Rose was still 130 mills away but already the wind was blowing people’s umbrellas away. The wind became stronger and stronger. The Typoon shelters were soon full of boats. Ships that were too big to go inside the shelters put down more anchors. Some very big ships went out to sea. It is safer for a big ship to be at sea in a typhoon because it cannot be blown onto rocks. Kai Tak Airport closed. No planes were able to take off or land. At 9:00 in the evening, all the lights went out.No one slept well that night. It is difficult to sleep in such bad weather.In Typhoon Rose, more than one hundred died. 229 people were hurt and 66 or these had to go to hospital. 1500 lost their homes. The people of Hong Kong will not quickly forget Typhoon Rose!29. What’s true according to the passage?A. Typhoons all over the world have girls’ name.B. Typhoons with pretty names are usually beautifulC. Typhoons only hit Hong Kong.D. For ten years, people in Hong Kong haven’t seen a worse typhoon than Typhoon Rose.30. The people of Hong Kong will not quickly forget Typhoon Rose because _______.A. it caused the terrible losses (损失)B. they didn’t sleep well that nightC. Typhoon Rose wasn’t as pretty as its name.D. they couldn’t find their ships after the typhoon.31. Some big ships didn’t go inside the shelters because __________.A. they had more anchorsB. it’s safer outsideC. they were out at sea and they weren’t fast enough to reach the shelters when Typhoon Rose cameD. it was too expensive for big ships to go inside the shelters.32. This passage is mainly about _____.A. the names of TyphoonsB. typhoons in Hong KongC. Typhoon RoseD. the typhoonsCThe Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great games. The first stamps marking the opening came out or January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule.During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics.In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the White Olympics came, the host countries as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when Chinese sportsmen began to take prat in the White Olympics.Japan is the only Asian countriy that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 milliion stamps were sold to collect money for this sports meeting.Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.33. The White Olympics and the Winter Olympics _________.A. are the same thingB. are different gamesC. are not held in winterD. are held in summer34. The world made it a rule to publish stamps to mark the great world Games _______.A. after the year 1936B. after the 3rd Winter OlympicsC. before the 3rd White OlympicsD. befor the year 193235. The Winter Olympics is held once ______.A. every two yearsB. every three yearsC. every four yearsD. every five years36. What may appear on the stamps of the White Olympics?A. BasketballB. FootballC. Table tennisD. skatingDMalls are popular places for Americans to go. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called “mall rats”. Mall rats shop until they shop in the hundreds of stores under on roof .People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations or private security guards. Parking is usually free, and the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and palm trees.The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a seven-acre amusment park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 75,000 people shop there every week.The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People loved doing all their shopping in one place. Many more malls were built all over the contry. Now, malls are like town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, of cource. They also eat in food courts that have food from all overthe world. They see movies at multiplex theaters. Some people even get their dailly exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends .In some malls, people can see a doctor or a dentist and even attend church. In other words, people can do just about everything in malls. The latest trend is condo-malls. Now residents can actually live in their favorite shopping center. For a mall rat, this is a dream come true.37. Malls are ______.A. large shopping center which also act as town centersB. large parks with shopsC. the most popular places American go toD. town centers38. Why have malls become so popular?A. Because people can do everything there.B. Because people can do many other things besides shopping for all they need.C. Because people feel safe in malls with police station around.D. Because people enjoy the fresh air and can have a good rest there.39. Malls have to be large places because ___________.A. many people drive their cars to go to mallsB. there have to be some restaurants, clinics, and theatresC. many people hope to do sports in the malls.D. they have to meet(满足) different needs of so many people.40. Those _______ are called mall rats.A. who are buy stealing in the mallB. who have visited the biggest mallsC. who are often found busy shopping in mallsD. who live under the roof of the mall四、任务型阅读（5分）阅读下面材料，将谚语和所给的解释配对，将A、B、C、D填入相应的横线上。